Baking-pan.



No. 821,104. PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

B. KATZINGER.

BAKING PAN. 4

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7. 1904.

2 SHEETSSHEBT l.

PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

E. KATZINGBR.

BAKING PAN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7. 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHBET 2.

UNITED STAEEFENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application filed November 7,1904. Serial No. 231,626.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD KATZINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing as Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baking-Pans, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification. I

My invention relates to pans generally, but more particularl to pans employed for baking purposes an other like uses; and it has for its primary object to provide a pan with a concavo-convex corner and rounded edges at the bottom of such a construction that the corner may beproduced from thin sheet metal of a low grade incapable of standing any considerable degree of drawing. The object of having such a corner on a pan is too obvious to require explanation; but it might be briefly stated that witha pan of this form not only the liability of damage from the peel in the attempts of the baker to insert it under the pan are reduced to the minimum, and the life ofthe pan thereby prolonged, but the interior is kept free from crevices, indentations, and sharp corners which hold particles of the loaf, and thus not only make the pan difficult to clean, but disfiguresthe loaf, and in addition to these advantages of the concavo-convex corner and the rounded edges of the pan at the bottom is the other. important advantage of being more readily nested and not so liable to cling or jam together when nested. To form this desired conCavo-convex corner on a pan produced from stout stock or the higher grades of metal that will allow of the requisite amount of drawing might be comparatively simple, but when an attempt is made to produce this corner by partially folding and partially drawin the metal or wholly by the latter method the stock breaks or tears, and therefore in order that I may use the lower grades of stock, which should be used to make an inexpensive article, I employ a novel form and arrangement of folds for producing the concavo-convex corner.

With these ends in view the invention consists in certain features of novelty in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts or features whereby the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearin are attained, all as fully described with re erence to the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one end of a pan constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged end elevation of one corner thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 3 3, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a plan section taken on the line 4 4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the complete pan. Fig. 6 is an enlarged and exaggerated diagram showing the plan of the olds. Fig. 7 is a vertical section taken on line 7 7, Fig. 4, at the edge of the inner fold and extending through the center of the corner in a plane radial to the corner of the pan. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one corner of the blank before the latter is folded around against the wall of the pan to produce the concavo convex corner. Fig. 9 is a perspective View of a pan constructed according to the principles of this invention.

The method of producing the concavo-convex corner shown and described herein constitutes the subject-matter of a separate application filed September 22, 1904, Serial No. 225,431; but such method may be briefly referred to herein for the purpose of giving an adequate understanding of the final result or construction. In producing the concavo-convex corner the blank from which the pan is formed is formed with aprojecting flap extending radiallyfrom the corner of the pan and comprising two plies or thicknesses 1 2, each of which is a continuation of one of the walls 3 4 of the pan and which conjoin with each other at their outer edges and form a triangle with the sides ofthe pan and with one of its corners situated at the lower corner of the pan where the concavo-convex corneris to'be produced. Where the outer edges of these plies 1 2 come together, a fold 5 is formed, which will be hereinafter referred to as the outer fold, and where the inner edge of the ply2 adjoins the wall 4 a fold 6 is formed, and this will be hereinafter referred to as the innor fold, the line of the outer fold 5 and that of the inner fold 6 naturally coming together or meeting at the lower corner of the triangle, and this point of conjunction is situated at or about the center of the concavo-convex corner produced on the pan. The pan is also rounded at its lower edges or along the lines where the bottom 7 adjoins the walls 3 4, as shown at 8. This rounding 8 is of a cylindrical formation, and it mergesinto the concavo-convex formation of the corner, and consequentlv the fold 6 at its lower end is curved, as shown at 9, to conform to this cylindrical formation 8 on one side. After the blank is thus formed with the projecting flap 1 2 the flap isfolded over against the wall4 in such away thatthe fold 6 will be sharply creased throughout its entire extent from the extreme lower end or center of the concavo-convex corner to the top of the pan, and which crease extends upwardly along the line of conjunction 'be tween the walls 3 4 of the pan in substantially a straight line after passing the curve 9, so that considered in plan view this inner fold 6 while conforming at its lower end to the'contour of the concavo-convex corner extends across said'corner in a direction radial thereto, while the outer. fold 5, although starting atthe same point at its lower end as the inner fold 6, crosses to the right of the inner fold and extends in a substantially s iral form at its lower end and thence upwar ly in an inclined straight direction across the outer face of the wall 4, always tendin in a direction away from the innervfold 6, t is spiral formation of the lower end of the outer fold 5 being necessary in order tomake the fold conform to the convex surface of the corner of the an and at the same time have the flap lie at against the wall. Before the flap is thus folded against the wall, however, and in order that the upright corner of the pan around which the flap is turned may also be cylindrical and merge gradually into the concavo-convex corner at the bottom one wall of the pan the wall 4, against which the flap is foldedis given a cylindrical formation 10, with the axis of thecylinder vertical or upright where the wall ,4 adjoins the fold. 6, the cylinder 8 being merged into the cylinder 10 by pressure of the dies or other suitable means, so that when the flap is folded flat against the wallet it will conform also to the c lindrical surface 10 and produce the 'rounde or cylindrical u right corner. After the flap 1 2 is thus fol ed'in place against'the wall 4 it is secured in any suitable way well known in the art-such, for example, as a flange 11, turned downwardly against the upper edge of the features, and consequently I am enabled toproduce a pan of a very desirable form or construction from'a lowgrade of stock incapable of standing the material'degree ofdrawing or stam ing that wouldbe'requi-redto produce this ormation by the'drawingmethod.

Having'thusdescribed my invention, what With a corner thus constructed it I claim as new-therein, anddesire-tosecure by Letters Patent, is

Asa new and useful article of manufacture a pan-provided witha concavo-convex corner having twofolds and in which one foldof the metal on the insideextencls from thebottom of the pan at or about the center of such corner, radiall-y'or outwardly, conforming to the concave surface of the corner and-thence upwardly along the upright corner formed by the contiguous sides of thepan and the outer fold of the metal extends from a'point at the bottom of the pan at-or about the center of such corner, upwardly and spirally toward 1 the opposite side of the 'pan and conforming to the-convexsurface'of the corner, one wall of the panhavinga sharpinward curve with its axis upright, terminating at :theape'x of the said inner fold and which inwardcurve is crossed in a spiral direction by the apex of the outer fold, and the outer ply of the outer fold being acon'tinuationof the contiguous wallof the panand extending in an out curve around the said curved part of the'first said wall.

g EDWARD KATZINGER.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS A. HorKINs, v-B. ALLsrAnr. 

